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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD router, as good as a harware router ? Date: 12 Jan 1996 22:21:18 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4d6msu$h7c@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4cof7j$59@news.mistral.co.uk> <4cpu39$sft@uriah.heep.sax.de> <DKzC5F.9vA@theatre.pandora.sax.de> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 mw@theatre.pandora.sax.de (Martin Welk) writes: > Hmm... May I still continue using my 3 MB 386DX-20 machine running > FreeBSD-2.0.5-RELEASE as an Ethernet/serial line router? :-) Of course, Ethernet <-> serial line is out of question. Problems will arise when it comes to Ethernet <-> Ethernet routing, where it certainly makes a difference whether you could pump 400 KB/s or 800 KB/s through the router. This is where it comes to the point: if you need the high througput, you should go to the hardware router. If you don't need, you might save money (and bandwidth :) by using a surplus PC. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)